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Does demography determine democratic attitudes?
Kotschy, Rainer; Sunde, Uwe - 2022
political influences that shape democratic attitudes. The results reveal that support for democracy increases with age and is … heterogeneity in experiences with democracy, and that socioeconomic factors impact democratic attitudes. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014458830
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Does demography determine democratic attitudes?
Kotschy, Rainer; Sunde, Uwe - 2022
This paper presents new evidence on how demography affects attitudes toward democracy and policy preferences. The … from 90 countries. The results show that the support for democracy increases with age and, at the same time, depends on … cohort-specific factors that are related to past experiences with democracy and socioeconomic status. The findings shed new …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012803695
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Does demography determine democratic attitudes?
Kotschy, Rainer; Sunde, Uwe - 2022 - Original version: January 2022, this version: September 2022
political influences that shape democratic attitudes. The results reveal that support for democracy increases with age and is … heterogeneity in experiences with democracy, and that socioeconomic factors impact democratic attitudes. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013366771
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Disease and demographic development : the legacy of the plague
Siuda, Fabian; Sunde, Uwe - In: Journal of economic growth 26 (2021) 1, pp. 1-30
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012488430
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Heterogeneity in Rent-Seeking Contests with Multiple Stages: Theory and Experimental Evidence
Hörtnagl, Tanja; Kerschbamer, Rudolf; Stracke, Rudi; … - CESifo - 2013
This paper investigates how heterogeneity in contestants’ investment costs affects the competition intensity in a dynamic elimination contest. Theory predicts that the absolute level of investment costs has no effect on the competition intensity in homogeneous interactions. Relative cost...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010701084
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Optimal prizes in dynamic elimination contests: Theory and experimental evidence
Stracke, Rudi; Höchtl, Wolfgang; Kerschbamer, Rudolf; … - Institut für Finanzwissenschaft, Fakultät für … - 2014
This paper investigates the implications of different prize structures on effort provision in dynamic (two-stage) elimination contests. Theoretical results show that, for risk-neutral participants, a structure with a single prize for the winner of the contest maximizes total effort, while a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010839574
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Heterogeneity in Rent-Seeking Contests with Multiple Stages: Theory and Experimental Evidence
Hörtnagl, Tanja; Kerschbamer, Rudolf; Stracke, Rudi; … - Institut für Finanzwissenschaft, Fakultät für … - 2013
This paper investigates how heterogeneity in contestants' investment costs affects the competition intensity in a dynamic elimination contest. Theory predicts that the absolute level of investment costs has no effect on the competition intensity in homogeneous interactions. Relative cost...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010839600
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Income and Democracy: Comment
Cervellati, Matteo; Jung, Florian; Sunde, Uwe; Vischer, … - In: American Economic Review 104 (2014) 2, pp. 707-19
Acemoglu et al. (2008) document that the correlation between income per capita and democracy disappears when including … heterogeneous effects of income on democracy: negative for former colonies, but positive for non-colonies. Within the sample of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010815626
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Optimal prizes in dynamic elimination contests: Theory and experimental evidence
Stracke, Rudi; Höchtl, Wolfgang; Kerschbamer, Rudolf; … - In: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization 102 (2014) C, pp. 43-58
This paper investigates the implications of different prize structures on effort provision in dynamic (two-stage) elimination contests. Theoretical results show that, for risk-neutral participants, a structure with a single prize for the winner of the contest maximizes total effort, while a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011048125
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Heterogeneity in Rent-Seeking Contests with Multiple Stages: Theory and Experimental Evidence
Stracke, Rudi; Höchtl, Tanja; Kerschbamer, Rudolf; … - Verein für Socialpolitik - VfS - 2014
This paper investigates how heterogeneity in contestants' investment costs affects the competition intensity in a dynamic elimination contest. Theory predicts that the absolute level of investment costs has no effect on the competition intensity in homogeneous interactions. Relative cost...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011163900